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Luxury One Bedroom Second Floor Apartment with its own allocated Parking Bay, set within the exclusive 'Squire House' development in the heart of Billericay High Street.
This smart new development houses a mix of contemporary one and two bedroom apartments all with 'Smart Home' technology, beautifully landscaped rear Communal Grounds and a private Car Park.
All flats come with a vast array of high end finishes and this particular one also enjoys the benefit of a surprisingly quiet rear setting up on the top/2nd Floor - thus from the Juliette Balcony there are far reaching views and great Sunsets!
We shall list all the specifications within the individual rooms but to give you an idea, some of the notable features include integrated Bosch kitchen appliances including an Induction Hob and Quartz worktops, beautifully appointed fully tiled Shower room with 'on-trend' matt black fittings and Porcelain tiling, built-in ceiling speakers in the main Living Room connected to your phone by Bluetooth®, wiring for SKY, Touch-Screen 'Indoor Station' linking with the Main Entrance Door so you can see whose visiting, LED lighting and HeatStore Intellipanel Plus wall-mounted Heaters controlled by the integrated panel or by an APP on your phone.
The Apartment itself has a large 20ft x 187ft max main Living Room incorporating a Kitchen area at the near end, a 15ft Bedroom with brand new fitted wardrobes just added by the Landlord and the Shower Room.
You'll love popping in to the newly opened Caffè Nero coffee shop at the front of the development and the packed historic High Street holds many well-known high street names mixed with smaller privately owned boutiques and a central Waitrose Store. Numerous intermingled restaurants, bars and pubs give the high street a real buzz of an evening, particularly Friday and Saturday nights.
The Accommodation
MAIN ENTRANCE LOBBY
Discreet Main Entrance Door off the High Street with an HIKVision system VideoCom link to all the flats. Each flat with a touch screen KH8 series 'indoor station', so you can see on its monitor, who's come to visit you and release the door lock.
On the left are the mail lockers, ahead the stairs rising up through the two upper floors.
2nd FLOOR LANDING
Two internal doors lead off to their respective 'wings'. Our one having just three apartments (the other wing has five).
Vicaima 'Essential Naturdor®' in Marina Grey Private Front Door to:
HALL AREA
The Hall is completely open plan to the Living Space to the left. On the right is the HIK Vision KH8 series 7' colourful LCD Touch-Screen linking with the Mian Entrance Door.
Ahead is the bedroom, and two Vicaima 'Lacdor' internal doors to the right open to the Bathroom and built-in cupboard housing the Gledhill Hot Water cylinder, electrical consumer unit and the BT Open Reach box.
OPEN PLAN MAIN LIVING AREA incorporating the Kitchen too 20ft x 17ft 7' (6.1m x 5.4m)
A spacious room with the eyes drawn to the door opening to reveal the Juliette Balcony, and the fabulous far reaching views beyond. There is also a further window too - so a well-lit room. Plus, being West facing too, there are great Sunsets to be watched! It is also surprisingly quiet up here too! The elevated setting taking away any noise from down below.
We noted lots of double power sockets to allow multiple room layouts, it's Pre-wired for SKY (communal dish) and you can connect your phone to the (loud if you want!) ceiling speakers by Bluetooth®
Gorgeous 'Pearl Oak' Luvanto flooring looks fabulous as well as being hard wearing and there is a smart smoke alarm too (alerts you to your phone).
Along the near wall is a streamlined range of 'Zola Soft-Matte' Handless Kitchen units in contrasting Graphite and Light Grey and topped with smart Quartz worktops.
The Kitchen features a host of integrated and built-in all-BOSCH appliances comprising:
. Sleek black glass ceramic TouchControl 'Series 4' Induction Hob with 'Power Boost' and an Integrated Extractor above.
. Multi-function Oven/Grill
. Built-In Microwave with Bosch's 'AutoPilot 7' feature
. Integrated 'EcoAirflow' Fridge/Freezer
. Integrated Washer/Dryer
. 'Silence' 9-Place Setting Integrated Slimline Dishwasher which you can also control from your Phone with the Home Connect app.
Swish further features include an Etrouno 400 under-mounted sink (Insusound® coating retains the heat of the water longer), 'Smoked Mirror' splashback and LED lights under the wall cupboards.
BEDROOM 15ft max x 9ft 9' (4.6m x 3m)
Two rear facing windows provide plenty of light and again being rear facing means they also enjoy the far reaching views.
Brand-new fitted wardrobes with modern 'Grey Oak' effect doors have been added by the owner and the Silver carpet is lovely and soft underfoot.
LUXURY SHOWER ROOM 7ft 4' x 4ft 2' (2.2m x 1.3m)
Fitted with 'Lusso' ceramics comprising a wall hung WC and a rather stylish Durastone® wall mounted Basin incorporating a concealed drain and a handy towel storage recess below.
The large Shower features a low profile shower tray and a fixed 'Drench' shower head in addition to a separate handset too.
The on-trench black taps and fittings match perfectly with the beautiful grey marble effect 'Boutique Amani Gray Matt' porcelain tiles.
Specification also includes a large, mirrored alcove with feature lighting and a twin electric Shaver/Toothbrush socket, a surprisingly quiet Extractor Fan, and a tall black heated towel radiator.
EXTERIOR
There is a large secure Communal Garden incorporating a Bicycle store. The large lawn surrounded by landscaped borders.
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Deposit: £1,471.00
Minimum Tenancy : 12 months
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band C
Notice
All photographs are provided for guidance only.
Billericay is a popular, historic market town just 30 miles from London.
The market at the top of Crown Road disappeared years ago and Billericay nowadays is more well-known as an excellent commuter town, with excellent rail links to the City (35 minutes by train), very good schools and a charming High Street, part of which is a conservation area.
It also has great access to the key main roads of the M25, A12 and A127.
The town lies on the edge of rural Essex, which makes it a very desirable place to live. This coupled with the City access goes some way to explain the high levels of Londoners we see looking to move here every year.
Since I moved here in 1973 and started as an estate agent in the mid 1990's, I have seen the town grow to where it is now, with some 14,000-15,000 homes and a population of over 40,000.
The Billericay you see today is economically and physically a thriving and attractive place to live and work. There are many open green spaces including the 40 acre Lake Meadows Park, a must in summer, and they throw a pretty impressive Fireworks Night too.
Norsey Woods is a great place for a walk or to exercise your dogs...or the kids! It dates back to the Bronze Age and covers about 165 acres with a visitor centre for the educational visits it has too.
I remember camping there as a cub scout back in the day and both Nick and myself have enjoyed many a afternoon there over the years with our families.
The High Street must be one of the prettiest in the county and dates back to Roman times. The shape we see now certainly hasn't changed much for over 500 years, our office itself is part of one of the 25 old coaching inns the town has seen over the years!
With well over 100 shops including some well known names and some boutique locally owned ones, the High Street also has some great pubs, bars and restaurants. The Chequers is probably the most popular, most people we know rate it as the best pub in town, with newer bars like Harrys Bar, Bar Zero and the Blue Boar, also very sought after, growing venues on friday and saturday nights.
There are too many great restaurants to name, suffice to say you don't need to travel out of Billericay to have a fantastic night out and there's a taxi rank by the station to get you home if you want to leave the car on the drive.
Waitrose is our local main supermarket with there also a very good Co-op over on Queens Park. Smaller supermarkets over in South Green, Sunnymede and along Stock Road also provide a super local service in their areas.
Billericay Christmas Market is a very popular annual event which sees the High Street completely shut to traffic for the day and then filled with stalls selling anything and everything Christmasy!
All the local schools, both Primary and Secondary have good OFSTED reports and there is a good choice of both State and Private. Please feel free to contact our office for more details although the OFSTED website is the ideal first port of call of course.
A BIT OF HISTORY
Billericay has an facinating history, much of which can be researched in our local museum, the Cater Museum on the High Street.
Billericay was first recorded as Byllerica in 1291 with notable events including a Peasants Revolt ending up in Norsey Woods in 1381 and some of Billericay residents, including Christopher Martin, the ship's victualler, sailing with the Pilgrim Fathers to the 'New World' of America on the Mayflower in 1620 - hence the many representartions of the Mayflower ship in numerous local businesses and the Mayflower High School.
In 1916 Billericay became famous as a result of a Zeppelin airship crashing in flames on the outskirts of the town, down what is now Greens Farm Lane.
A union workhouse was built in 1840 which later, together with additional later built buildings, became St. Andrew's Hospital in the 1930s. The regional plastic surgery and rehabilitation unit was opened here the same year I moved to Billericay, 1973. Many a local will still refer the estate there now to me, as 'one of the houses on the old Burns Unit', although it is in fact Stockfield Manor now.
Only the original workhouse building, including the chapel, and the main gatehouse, now survive, converted now into Grey Lady Place, a residential development of luxury apartments.
The railway came in 1889 and opened up opportunities for landowners to sell plots to Londoners looking to move out of 'The Smoke' into a cleaner rural environment. Both myself and Nick have sold many an old 'plot land' home over the years for redevelopment. A few still remain on the edge of Norsey Woods down Break Egg Hill.
With the housing shortage created by the war time bombing of London, pressure to build was great and the new town of Basildon was given the green light. The 'Green Belt' stopped expansion and the blurring of Basildon and Billericay, hence why lot of the Billericay housing estates were built on abandoned farmland around the town centre and Great Burstead/South Green, where permission was more easily granted.
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